Portable end welding device



Sept. 18, 1951 J. D. CRECCA ET AL PORTABLE END WELDING DEVICE Filed Feb. 19, 1951 4 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTORS ATTORNEYS JOHN D. ORECCA WALTER E. PALMER Sept. 18, 1951 J. D. CRECCA ET AL 2,568,222

PORTABLE END WELDING DEVICE Filed Feb. 19, 1951 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 3. FIG. 4.

W a. El sz: INVENTORS I I 50 JOHN 0. (H5004 a? WALTER E. PALMER a2 T5: BY

ATTORNEYS Sept. 18, 1951 J. D. cREccA ET AL PORTABLE END WELDING DEVICE 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Feb. 19 1951 ulw l.

INVENTORS JOHN D. OREOCA WALT R E. PALMER ATTORNEYS Sept. 18, 1951 Filed Feb. 19 1951 J. D. CRECCA ET AL 2,568,222

PORTABLE END WELDING DEVICE 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 FIG. I2.

TIME? 601V TROL sw/ 70H INVENTIORS JOHN "0.6WEGOA WALTER E. PALMER,

ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 18, 1951 UNITED PORTABLE END WELDING DEVICE John D. Crecca, Elizabeth, and Walter E. Palmer,

GresskilL-N. J.

Application February 19, 1951, Serial No. 211,628

4 Claims. (Cl. 219-4) This invention relates to arc welding equipment and more particularly to devices known in the art as stud welding guns which may be used to butt weld studs, bolts and the like to the surface of a metallic plate.

The general object of the invention is to provide a gun type device to accomplish that type of welding.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a gun type welding device which is very compact in the arrangement of parts.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a gun type welding device which is relatively light in weight and therefore easily handled and operated.

Other objectives will be apparent from the following description of the device and from the drawings which are merely illustrative of a preferred embodiment of said device and are not to be taken as limitative thereto beyond the scope as defined in the herewith appended claims.

In these drawings:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional-elevational View taken along a plane passing centrally through the device;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional-elevational view showing the trigger, cam and switch adjustor at the time of contact of the switch adjustor with the push button of the control switch;

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken along line 33 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical sectional-elevational view taken along line 44 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken along line 55 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken along line 6-6 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. '7 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken along line of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 8 is a perspective detail of the supporting tripod;

Fig. 9 is an enlarged sectional-elevational detail view showing the construction and arrangement of the cam (operated by the trigger) and the associated followers;

Fig. 10 is a sectional-elevational View showing the stud in contact with the plate to which it is to be welded at the start of the welding operation;

Fig. 11 is a sectional-elevational view showing the stud as having been moved into the molten puddle at the finish of the welding operation; and

Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of the electric circuits and controls therein as used in the inventors device.

The device as illustrated in these drawings, consists essentially of the following assemblage of parts:

a. Gun stock or holder.

22. Positioning and supporting mechanism.

0. Stud holder and activator assembly.

d. Trigger and actuating cam.

e. Solenoid actuated mechanism.

The gun stock or holder consists of pieces 2| and 22. These pieces are made of insulating materials, such as wood, Bakelite, hard rubber, plastic, etc., to avoid shorting the electrical circuits in the gun. Pieces 2| and 22 are milled out to make recesses to receive the various parts of the device housed within these pieces. The parts are first assembled into piece 2| and piece 22 is then assembled with piece 2| by use of locating or dowel pins 29 and piece 22 is attached and secured to piece 2| by cap screws 30, 3|, 32. Thus a clamping effect is produced between pieces 2| and 22 holding the numerous parts of the device in their respective recesses. Since in the operation of the gun pieces 2| and 22 act as one piece, these two pieces are referred to below as gunstock 2|'-22.

The positioning and supporting mechanism consists of the following: Tripod 19 is attached by removable means to positioner bracket piece 18. When the device is used for end-welding studs to a metal surface thru holes in a sheathing covering the metal surface, tripod 19 is omitted and the device rests with piece 18 directly on the sheathing over the hole. Piece 18 is attached to adjustor shaft 15 by thumb screw 69. Adjustor shaft '55 fits neatly inside of positioner piece 25. Adjustor piece 15 can be adjusted to various positions in piece 25 and secured therein in the desired position by the use of thumb screw 68 which threads thru a lug 250 on piece 25 and the rotation of thumb screw 68 sets the point of its stem into a selected oneof the recesses 15A in adjustor shaft 15. This adjustment of piece with respect to piece 25 is to permit use of various lengths of studs and also to allow the stud end to reach the metal surface to which the stud is .to be welded when such Welding is done with the stud inserted thru holes in various thicknesses of sheathing over the said metal surface and the .device is resting with piece '18 on the outer surface of the sheathing.

Piece 25 can move longitudinally inside of gun stock 2l-22 between two upper rollers piece 5| (which are held in position with respect to gunstock 2l22 by pin journals 38) and two pairs of spaced rollers pieces 52 on the under side of piece 25. Each pair of roller 52 is held in position with respect to gun-stock 2 l22 by pin j ournals. The under side of piece 25 has a longitudinal rectangular projection which extends between each pair of lower rollers 52. The said pr0- jection has teeth D out along a portion of its 7 length. These teeth 25D are engaged by the two spaced teeth across the top surface of wedge piece or detent 49 when it is desired to jam the positioning and supporting mechanism, pieces 25, l5, l8 and J9, to any desired position with respect to the gun-stock 2I-22 and the stud A. Thus the location of the gun-stock 2l22 and its internal parts and the stud itself with respect to the metal surface can be fixed by the jamming of the teeth on top of wedge 40 against the teeth 25D on piece 25. The spacebetween the teeth on the upper surface of wedge 49 is made so that it is not an exact multiple of the pitch of the teeth 25D on piece 25. This is done to ensure that the jamming of piece 25 with respect to the gun-stock 21-22 will take place at the instant and position desired when wedge 40 is pushed into teeth 25D on piece 25. tween the teeth on wedge 49 were an exact multiple of the teeth 25D on piece 25, it would be possible for the crests of the teeth on wedge 49 to contact the crests of two of the, teeth 25D without any jamming, and jamming of the two pieces 49 and 25 would not occur until piece 25 slid in either direction until the crests of the two teeth on wedge 49 dropped into the roots of the teeth 2513. The spacing of the two teeth on wedge 40 is If the spacing bemade so that, when the crest of one of these teeth rcontacts the crest or to one side of the crest of a tooth 25D, the crest of the other tooth on wedge 49 engages into the root between two teeth of 25D as wedge is pushed toward piece 25. This action will result in the pivoting of wedge 40. T01;

permit such pivoting action the under side of piece 48 is machined to a semicircular surface, which surface rests on wedge pivot piece 41 which in turn fits in a hole transversely across wedge 40.

Wedge pivot piece 4! rests on the end of push rod piece 42. Push rod piece 42 serves to push wedge pivot 4| and wedge 45 upward against piece 25 to effect the jamming action mentioned above. Push rod piece 42 is moved upward when the lowor rounded end of push rod adjustor piece or cam 3 follower 44, which is attached to piece 42, is moved upward on cam surface 82A when cam piece 82 is moved to the right by trigger piece 24. Wedge 49 is normally held away from piece 25 by the action of leaf spring 89, the middle portion of which is attached to the under side of wedge 49 and the ends of which bear against recessed surfaces in gunstock 2 l--22.

Screwed into the two lugs 25B of piece 25 are spring guides 55 which act as guides for springs -y.

84. These springs keep pressure against piece 25 and thus against tripod 19 thru the series of connected pieces 15, 69 and 18. The spring. pressure on tripod l9 acts as a steadying means when holding the device by manual gripping of the gun-- stock 21-22 against the surface to which the stud is to be end welded.

It will be noted that while piece 15 can be positioned in exact increments with respect to piece 25 to allow for known thicknesses of sheathing over the metal surface and to allow for appreciable variations in lengths of studs, the movement of piece 25 between the rollers 5| and 52 provides for unknown variations in the depth of buckles and hollows in the surface of the metal under the sheathing at the situs of weld.

Stud holder and activator assembly Stud A is held in one end of metal collet or chuck piece 55. The other end of collet 53 is screwed into one end of metal shaft extender piece 54. Shaft extender piece 54 may be made in suitable length to permit the stud to reach the metal surface to which it is to be welded particularly when such surface is covered with large increments in thicknesses of sheathing or covering and the device is rested on the sheathing and the stud must penetrate a hole in the sheathing to reach the situs of weld. To the other end of piece 54, metal washer SIB is attached by means of lock screw 59 which screws into shaft insulator piece 5'6 and thus draws piece .5? towards piece 54 with metal washer BIB between pieces 5? and 54 and provides for intimate electrical conducting contact of washer BIB to piece 54. Washer 5 4B is attached to braided flexible electric conductor 8 t0, the other end of which holds metal washer A. The lug at the end of electric cable B makes metallic connection to metal washer 8 Hi thru metal washer Hi6 and stud 43 which holds the lug washers I and washer 8 IA in contact by actionof nut I05. The stud 43 has a square upset end which bears against a recess in part 2| of the gun-stock 2l-22, and is insulated from metal piece 25 by an insulating toward the metal surface to which stud is to be welded. Secured to the right end of shaft 15 is button-stop l 15; The right end of stop I I5 travels (when shaft l5 moves to the right) thru the gap between itself and the end of the prong on are adjustor 49. The said gap between pieces I I 5 and 49 is equal to the sum of the arc gap to be "made'between the stud end to be welded and the situs of weld plus a puddle distance. The puddle distance is the distance that the stud end to be welded travels into the molten puddle of metal made by the welding are at the situs of weld. The said puddle distance is traveled after the stud end has been withdrawn from contact with the metal surface, with welding current on, to the right away from the situs of weld for the predetermined arc gap, the arc thereupon struck and held for a predetermined time and the stud end returned automatically thru the distance of the arc. gap to the situsof weld where there is still a molten puddle of metal just before or simultaneously with the automatic, extinction of the are .by a timing means. sequence of time continues to move into the mol- The stud at the end of this ten puddle until the puddle freezes. This puddle distance is usually s" to /8". Arc adjustor 49 can be moved axially toward or :away from piece H5 to set the desired gap by screwing piece v.49 in bearing piece 41, which also acts as a bearing and guide for shaft 15. Bearing cap 48 is secured to piece 41 by studs I05 and set screw I M is used to prevent the movement of arc adjustor piece 49 after its position has been set.

There is an axial slot 15A in activator shaft 16 to permit movement of piece 15 axially with piece 42 passing transversely thru 16.

There is a hole in piece 16 transverse to its longitudinal axis. In this hole, pin guide piece 46 is fitted with a drive fit and inside piece 45, puddling pin 45 slides. Spring 81 bears on a shoulder in piece 46 and against a shoulder of piece 45 so as to keep pressure on piece 45 to move it downward. Thus, when shaft 15 moves to the right carrying piece 45 with it and piece 45 aligns with the hole in housing piece 28, piece 45 is pushed by spring 81 into said hole in piece 28, and bears against the end of push rod 43 in said hole. By such action of piece 45, shaft 16 becomes locked to bearing piece 26A and to gunstock 2 l22, since housing piece 28 is secured to piece 26A and 25A is fixed in recesses in gunstock 2 l22.

Trigger and actuating cam Cam 82 has a longitudinal slot for part of its length on each of two sides. Cam 82 can pivot and slide right and left on two bearing shaft pieces 65, one of which is located on each side of cam 82, and each of which has a pin projection on one end with a ball bearing 39 extending in and bearing in the above-mentioned slots in the two sides of cam 82. The other end of each of pieces 65 is fixed in the gun-stock 2l-22 (see Fig. 7).

Through the longitudinal center of cam 82 is a hole in which switch adjustor rod 50 is screwed so that one end of the rod 50 extends outside of cam 82. Rod 58 is prevented from loosening from the set position by set screw l 00.

Cam 82 has two cam surfaces 82A and 8213. When cam 82 moves to the right, cam surface 82A pushes up push rod adjustor 44 which is attached to push rod 42 and the latter by such vertical motion pushes wedge piece 48 and thus forces the two teeth on wedge 40 to engage the teeth 25D on the under side of piece 25. Also, when cam 82 moves to the right, cam surface 82B pushes up rod adjustor 44A which is attached to push rod piece 43 and therefore pushes up push rod 43. The upward movement of rod 43 ejects puddling pin 45 out of the hole in housing 28 when the said pin 45 has been forced into the said hole by the motion of shaft IE to the right as mentioned above. The ejection of pin 45 out of the hole in piece 28 by push rod 43 allows recoil spring 85 to push shaft 16, its attached pieces 51, MB, 54 and 51-3 and the stud A to the left toward the situs of weld.

Cam 82 is pulled to the right by the manual movement of trigger piece 24 which is pinned to the right end of cam 82 and cam 82 is pushed to the left by the action of trigger spring 85 against trigger piece 24 when the manual control of the latter piece is released. The motion of cam 82 to the right also carries rod 50 to the right and the right end of rod 50 pushes switch activator piece 86 which has a knob on one end, which knob pushes the button on control-switch 31 closing this switch. Control-switch 31 is connected to electric conductors in cable C. The control-switch closes an external electric circuit, which energizes the solenoid (pieces 9 l95), and also actuates a magnetic switch which closes the welding current circuit thru cable B, the controlswitch 3'! also starts a timing device which de- 6 vice opens the solenoid circuit and the welding current circuit at the end of a pre-set time for duration of the welding are at the stud end.

Solenoid actuating mechanism Pieces 9|, 93, c4 and 95 make up the solenoid located in the handle portion of gun-stock 2 l-22. Piece 92 is the armature of the solenoid connected to one end of plunger piece 98 which bears and slides in bearing piece 79. The other end of piece 913 is connected to one end of each of two links 67 by pin H0. The other end of each of the links 61 is connected to one arm of each of the two L-shaped rocker links or bell cranks 11, which are located one on each side of link 61, by pin Hi8. tween links 5! and H in way of their connection as shown. The rocker links ii are located one on each side of shaft 55 and on each side of lug 26B of bearing piece 25A. The two rocker links H pivot from lug 26B on pin 52 which passes thru the vertex of the L. of each of the pieces 11'. The other arm of each of the links 11 has an elongated hole thru which pin Ill passes to connect these arms of links H to shaft 16.

When the solenoid coil 95 is energized, armature 92 and plunger are pulled down thus pulling down links 67 which in turn cause the two L-shaped rocker links T! to pivot together on pin 62 and the vertical arms of links 71 to pull on shaft '16 to the right through pin Ill and piece l [5 which is screwed to shaft 16. The elongated holes in the vertical arms of links l1 permit the circular motion of these links to transmit a straight line motion to shaft 16. When the solenoid is tie-energized, spring 86 pushes shaft 16 back to the left and thus reversing the motion of links 11, 61, plunger and armature 92.

Operation The device is held by the hand gripping gunstock 2l22 at the handle end, i. e., the portion which contains the solenoid, with the palm of the hand against the right end of the stock and the fingers of the hand just touchin the trigger piece 24.

Assume that the device is to rest directly against the metal surface to which the stud A is to be end-welded, in which case the tripod 19 is left on the device as shown. The stud A is fitted into collet 53. The position of adjustor shaft 15 is set in positioner piece 25 to suit the length of the stud A and thumb screw 68 set up to fix the position set.

Bearing cap 48 is removed and are adjustor 49 is screwed in or out in bearing 4! so that the gap between the end of button stop H5 and the extension on are adjustor 49 is the desired distance, i. e., the puddle distance plus the arc length desired. This distance is indicated by markings on the back face of adjustor piece 45. Bearing cap is then replaced.

The device is positioned with the tripod 19 on the metal surface to which the stud A is to be end-welded and with the stud tapered end over the situs of weld. The palm of the hand pushes against the right end of the gun-stock 2l22 until the stud end touches the metal surface. In this action, positioner piece 25 moves between rollers 5| and 52 with the lugs 253 on piece 25 compressing springs 84 which compression steadies the movement of the gun-stock 2 I-22.

Since the stud-end is now against the metal surface, further pressure of the palm of the hand against the right end of gun-stock 2l-22 moves Pieces l0! and H18 are spacers bethe gun-stock 2l22 and its interior parts towards the metal surface with the exception of the stud holder and activator assembly, i. e., the stud A (which is already against the metal surface), pieces 53, 54, MB, 51 and 86. Thus there is a relative movement between these pieces with respect to the gun-stock 2l22 and bearing piece 26A. This relative movement compresses spring 86 and causes puddling pin 45 to enter into the hole in piece 28 and against the end of push rod 43, because of the action of spring 81. The said relative movement of piece 16 in bearing 26A causes the shank of push rod 42 to move relatively to the left in slot 16A.

When puddling pin 45 enters hole in piece 28 and bears against push rod 43, bearing piece 26A becomes locked with piece 16 and since bearing 26A is fixed and bears against recesses in gunstock 2l--22, the stud holder and activator assembly, pieces A, 53, 54, BIB, 51 and 15 are all looked with the gun-stock 2l22. The shank of push rod 42 is now located in slot 76A with space on each side of it. The space existing on the right side is the puddle distance and the space on the left is the arc distance.

During the preceding motions, the fingers of the hand have been held against trigger piece 24 without exerting any pressure. The fingers are now drawn against trigger 24 pulling it towards the right. In so doing, cam piece 82 moves to the right causing cam surface 82A to push rod adjustor 44 and push rod 42 upward. Push rod 42 consequently pushes against wedge pivot 41 and wedge 40; so that the teeth on wedge 40 engage into the roots of teeth 25D on positioner piece 25. This action locks positioner piece 25, shaft 15 and its attached pieces 18 and tripod I9, with the gun-stock 2l--22 since push rod 42 is fixed in bearing piece 21 which is fixed in bearin 26A, which, in turn, is fixed in gun-stock 2l-22. Therefore, further pressure of the palm of the hand on gun-stock 2l22 causes no more movement of any part and the entire device. The position of the stud, which is bearin against the metal surface, with respect to the tripod and positioner 25 and gun-stock 2l- 22 is now set.

Conditions are now right for the weld to be made. Further pull on the fingers on trigger 24 draws the latter piece further to the right thuspulling cam 82 to the right more and causing cam surface 82B to push push rod 43 upward. Piece 43 thereupon pushes puddling pin 45 out of hole in piece 28. Though spring 86 has been compressed, as stated above, there is no motion of activator shaft 16 and the rest of the activator assembly to the left since the stud is still bearin against the metal surface.

Further pull on trigger 24 to the right causes cam 82 to move further to the right carrying switch adjustor 50 to the right until the latter piece pushes switch activator 30 which pushes control-switch 3'? closed.

Control-switch 31 as shown in Fig. 12 closes an external electric circuit, thru wires in cable C, which circuit actuates a magnetic switch I25, 7

which, in turn, closes the main welding current circuit and electric current passes thru cable B thru pieces I05, 43, 8IA, BIC,'8IB, 54, 53 to the stud A. Simultaneously, the control-switch closes an external electric circuit which starts a timing device I22 to function. This timing device has already been set for a predetermined duration of the welding arc. The control-switch 31 also at the same time closes an external electric circuit through electro-magnetic switch I24,

whose wires pass thru cable C, which energizes solenoid coil 95. The energizing of the solenoid causes the coil armature core 92 to be pulled down, thus pulling plunger and links 61 down. The motion of the links 6'! down causes the rotation of rocker links 11 and movement of shaft 16 to the right further compressing spring 86.

The movement of shaft 16 to-the right draws the pieces attached to it. to the right, i. e., 51, 81B, 54, 53 and the stud A. The movement of the stud A to the right away from the metal surface causes an arc to be struck between the stud-end and the metal surface since welding current has already been imposed on the stud, as mentioned above.

It is to be noted that, since the existing position of cam 82 and cam surface 82A maintains push rod 42 against wedge 40 and the teeth on wedge 40 jam the teeth on piece 25, the tripod l9 and pieces 18, 15, 25 are still locked with the gun-stock 2l22 and thus form a supporting pedestal. Therefore, when the stud was withdrawn from the metal surface to strike the arc, the gun-stock 2l22 maintains its relative position with respect to the metal surface.

The timer mentioned above, on expiration of the period set for the arc duration, opens the magnetic switch in the welding current and the arc is extinguished. Slightly before the extinction of the arc, the arc timer opens the circuit which has energized the solenoid thus de-energlzing the solenoid coiland releasing the force pulling shaft 16 against the spring 56. Upon release of the solenoid pull, the spring 86 pushes shaft 76 with its attached pieces 51, BIB, 54, 53 and the stud A to the left and the stud end is projected into the crater of the arc at the situs of weld. The grip on trigger 24 is still held during this time in its previously drawn position to the right so that the still upward position of push rod 43' prevents puddling pin 45 from slipping into the hole in piece 23 as pin 45 travels to the left, carried with shaft 76, past the said hole in piece 28.

Since the solenoid is released slightly before the extinction of the arc, the metal in the crater at the situs of weld is still in a molten or puddled state when the stud end is projected into it by the action of spring 86 on shaft 16. Therefore, the return movement to the left of shaft 76 and its attached pieces, including the stud, is greater than just the arc distance by the amount of the pre-set puddle distance, which was set when shaft 16 was moved to the right with respect to bearing 26A until puddle pin 45 dropped into the hole in piece 28 in bearing 26A. Consequently, the stud end can immerse itself into the molten or puddled metal deeper than its original position in contact with the metal surface at the situs of weld, and a greater area of fusion between the stud end and the metal surface is realized.

The device is then withdrawn from the metal surface on completion of the weld, the stud sliding out of collet 53.

When the device is used to end-weld a stud to a metal surface thru a hole in a sheathing covering such surface, the tripod 19 is not used, and the Hat surface of positioner bracket 18 forms the base for the device against the sheathing. In such case, the adjustor shaft 75 provides for known variation in length of stud by locking shaft 15 in suitable position with respect to piece 25. and positioner piece25, by virtue of its-travel on the roller and 52 takes account of unknown variations in the metal surface under the sheathing. But once the stud has been pushed down to contact such metal surface, the position of the device with respect to the sheathing and metal surface is fixed and locked by the action of trigger 24 pulling cam 82 and cam surface 82A to the right and thus causing push rod 42 to jam the teeth of wedge 40 against the teeth on positioner piece 2 5.

It should be understood, of course, that the foregoing disclosure relates to only a preferred embodiment of the invention and that it is intended to cover all changes and modifications of the example of the invention herein chosen for the purposes of the disclosure, which do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. Gun type welding apparatus characterized by compactness and relatively light weight adapted for the arc-welding of studs, bolts and the like to the surface of a metallic plate comprising a hollow stock body, a hollow grip handle integral with said hollow stock body and extending at right angles from one end thereof, a positioning plunger rod resiliently mounted in the upper part of said stock body adjustably movable with respect thereto and lockable therein in any one of a plurality of positions, a supporting plate structure adjustabl attached to said plunger rod and adapted to contact the surface of said metallic plate around the area to be welded and to thereby position said stock body with respect to the surface of said plate, a second plunger resiliently and movably mounted within said stock body, in parallel with said plunger rod, said second plunger extending exteriorly of said stock body, a chuck piece for holding a stud to be welded in contact with the surface of said plate securely attached to the exterior end of said second plunger, a trigger pivotally mounted on said handle and extending into said stock body, a solenoid coil and armature mounted in said handle, said armature connected by linkwork to said second plunger and adapted to move said second plunger in a direction away from the surface of said plate when said solenoid coil is energized, an electrical control switch positioned in said stock body to be closed by mechanism operated by said trigger, a first train of mechanism in said stock body operable by said trigger to lock said plunger rod with respect to said stock body, a second train of mechanism in said stock body operable by said trigger to release said second plunger to be subject to forward biasing by its resilient mounting, an electrical welding circuit including therein the plate and the stud to be welded thereto and an electromagnetically operated switch, a second electrical circuit connected to said solenoid coil and including an electro-magnetically operated switch therein and a timer operatively in circuit with said control switch and with said electromagnetic switches whereby upon closing of said control switch the said timer for a predetermined period of time closes the electromagnetically operated switches in the welding and solenoid circuits thereby feeding welding current through said stud and plate and substantially simultaneously withdrawing said stud from the surface of said plate a distance suflicient to strike an arc therebetween and whereby upon opening of said circuits by said timer the solenoid is deenergized, the welding current is cut off and the stud is moved forward into the puddle of molten metal formed between the stud and the surface of said plate.

2. The positioning pluger rod resiliently mounted in said stock body as defined in claim 1 comprising a cylindrical rod, a sleeve rectangular in cross-section, slidably mounted on aligned roller bearings in said stock body, movably surrounding a portion of said rod, said rod extending forwardly from said sleeve, setscrew meansthreadedly engaging said sleeve for positionally fixing said sleeve and rod with respect to each other, a collar fixedly attached to said sleeve within said stock body, at least one stub shaft extending rearwardly from said collar parallel to said sleeve compression spring means, surrounding said stub shaft, bearing on said collar and an abutment in said stock body to bias said sleeve forward, a plurality of teeth arranged in the form of a rack on the underside of said sleeve, wedge detent means controlled by said trigger adapted to engage said teeth to thereby hold said sleeve in fixed relationship with respect to said stock body and a bracket plate support adjustably attached to the forward end of said rod.

3. The first train of mechanism in said stock body operable by said trigger as defined in claim 1 comprising a cam piece mounted on roller bearings in said stock body and pivotally connected to said trigger whereby as said trigger is moved said cam piece follows pivoting about both its roller bearing mounting in said stock bod and pivotal connection to said trigger, said cam piece provided with a notched cam surface, a cam follower in contact with said cam surface, a push rod adjustably connected to said follower, a toothed detent freely connected to the outer end of said push rod and spring means connected to said detent to bias said detent and push rod toward said cam surface.

4. The solenoid coil and armature mounted in the handle of said gum and the link-work operatively connecting said armature to said second plunger as defined in claim 1 comprising a wire coil wound around a hollow spool positioned in the lower part of said handle, a fixed core extending into the field of said coil, an armature, movable with respect to said coil, extending into the field thereof, a plunger rod slidably mounted in a bearing in said handle and securely connected to said armature, a pair of links pivotally connected to the end of said plunger rod, a pair of bell cranks pivotally mounted in said stock body, one of the arms of said pair of bell cranks pivotally connected to said pair of links and the other arms of said pair of bell cranks pivotally and slidably connected to said second plunger, an electric circuit including a control switch in said stock body connected to said solenoid coil whereby when said solenoid coil is energized upon closing said switch said armature is drawn into the field thereof and said second plunger and stud are moved a predetermined distance away from said plate.

JOHN D. CRECCA. WALTER E. PALMER.

No references cited. 

